BOBBIE WRENN BANKS
Bobbie Wrenn Banks has been a member of Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND) since 1984 when she heard Dr. Helen Caldicott, WAND's founder, speak at Emory University. Moved by Caldicott's speech, she helped establish the Atlanta WAND chapter, and has been active in Atlanta WAND ever since. She joined the WAND National Board in 1989 and served as National WAND President from 1992 until 1994. In 1994, Bobbie Wrenn served as campaign manager for State Representative Nan Orrock's re-election campaign to the Georgia General Assembly. From 1994 to 1996, drawing on her background in education, she taught elementary PE in the City Schools of Decatur, Georgia. She became WAND National Field Director in the fall of 1996 and spent the next decade leading WAND's growth nationwide. In 2005, Bobbie Wrenn drove 9,000 miles across the country promoting Last Best Chance, a documentary film addressing nuclear terrorism. In 2006, Bobbie Wrenn founded Pathways To Peace, Inc. - www.pathways-peace.com - a consulting firm that offers support to individuals and organizations working for peace, nuclear disarmament and the empowerment of women. Bobbie Wrenn graduated from Emory's Candler School of Theology in 1988. From there she served as director of an older adult center in the Grant Park neighborhood of Atlanta for four years.

SIR JOHN DANIEL
Sir John is a world-renowned authority in open and distance learning. Knighted by Queen Elizabeth for services to higher education in 1994, the honour recognised the leading role that he has played internationally, over three decades, in the development of distance learning in universities. Sir John is President and Chief Executive Officer of Commonwealth of Learning (COL), an intergovernmental organization created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. Prior to joining COL, he was Assistant Director-General for Education and headed the global Education for All programs at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Sir John has been active as a scholar and student throughout his career. The success of his book, Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media: Technology Strategies for Higher Education (Kogan Page, 1996), established his reputation in international university circles as a leading thinker about the role of technology in academic communities. Sir John has been awarded 25 honorary doctorates, fellowships and professorships from universities in 15 countries, is a past President of both the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) and the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE), and served as Vice-President of the International Baccalaureate Organisation.

ROBERT L. DEHAAN
Dr. Robert L. DeHaan is Senior Science Advisor for the Division of Educational Studies and Candler Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus, at Emory University. He also serves as Director of Education Research for the ICA Institute. Dr. DeHaan's research career spans over four decades on the faculties of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Johns Hopkins University and the Emory School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences. He has authored three books and over 100 research papers in cellular science and embryology focusing on the biophysical differentiation of the embryonic heart, and in science education. He was Director of the Committee on Undergraduate Science Education in the Center for Education of the National Research Council, National Academies in Washington, D. C. (2001 to 2003), where he implemented studies on instructional reform in science. From 1995 through 2000 he was Director of NSF and NIH supported teacher enhancement programs that supplied professional development for teachers in the Atlanta Public Schools. Earlier, Dr. DeHaan founded and was first Director of the Emory Center for Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions. His many awards and recognitions have included being a Fulbright Scholar, a Macy Scholar, a lifetime Fellow of the AAAS, the recipient of the First Bruce Alberts Award from the American Society of Cell Biologists for Distinguished Contributions to Science Education, and the Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize from the Society for Developmental Biology.

MARYANN P. FELDMAN
Maryann Feldman is the Miller Distinguished Professor, Institute for Higher Education, University of Georgia. Prior to joining UGa, she held the Jeffery S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Business Economics at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. And before that, was Policy Director for Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and a research scientist at the Institute on Policy Studies at the University. Dr. Feldman is on the Advisory Panel for the U.S. National Science Foundation's Program on Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology. Her research and teaching interests focus on the areas of innovation, the commercialization of academic research and the factors that promote technological change and economic growth. A large part of Dr. Feldman's work concerns the geography of innovation – investigating the reasons why innovation clusters spatially, and the mechanisms that support and sustain industrial clusters.

RONALD FRANK
Ronald E. Frank is Chairman of the Strategic Issues Advisory Committe of the Singapore Management Univeristy where he previously served as a member of the Board of Trustees and President. He is also Dean and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Marketing Emeritus of the Roberto C. Goizueta Business School of Emory University. Dr. Frank previously served as Dean and Professor of Marketing of the School of Management and the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University, and prior to that time he was at The Wharton School as Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean, and Chairman of the Marketing Department. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Chicago and his M.B.A. from Northwestern. He has previously taught at the Harvard Business School and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business as well as at Northwestern's Kellogg School. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Lafayette Life Insurance Company, Lafayette Home Hospital, Inc., the MAC Group (now Gemini Consulting), and as a member of the advisory council for Cornerstone Research, which specializes in providing litigation support services. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the AACSB – The International Association for Management Education as well as previously chairing the Board’s Audit Committee and serving as a member of the AACSB’s Strategic Planning and Oversight Committee. Dr. Frank is the founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. For over a decade he was the fourth most cited author in marketing. He has written numerous articles and books. His most recent books include: Audiences for Public Television; The Public's Use of Television; Market Segmentation; and An Economic Approach to a Market Decision Model.

MARK L. HUTCHESON
Mark Hutcheson is Assistant Director of the India, China and America (ICA) Institute (www.icainstitute.org), a non-profit organization with the vision of providing a sustainable, non-governmental platform to identify and drive economic synergies among India, China and America. Prior to joining ICA Institute, Mark was a researcher and consultant with the Institute for Communications Research and Education, a training and consulting firm that focused on marketing and the competitive landscape in deregulating industries. He has provided research, editing and writing for numerous academic papers, business books, and newspaper articles on technology, marketing and political topics. Mark received a B.S. in Business Management from Samford University.

JAMES C. KAUFMAN
Dr. James C. Kaufman is an assistant professor at the California State University at San Bernardino, where he is the director of the Learning Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in Cognitive Psychology, where he worked with Robert J. Sternberg. Kaufman then worked as an Associate Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service in the Center for New Constructs before rejoining academia. With Sternberg and Jean Pretz, he developed the propulsion model of creative contributions, outlined in The Creativity Conundrum (2002). He served as co-editor with Sternberg of The Evolution of Intelligence (2002) and the International Handbook of Creativity (2006). Other books include Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse (with John Baer, 2004), Gender Differences in Mathematics (with Ann Gallagher; Cambridge, 2004), and Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development (with Baer; 2006). He is currently Contributing Editor to the Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving; and is on numerous other editorial boards. In 2003, he received the 2003 Daniel E. Berlyne Award from the American Psychological Association for outstanding research by a junior scholar.

R.A. MASHELKAR
Dr. R. A. Mashelkar is President of the Global Research Alliance and President of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). He was Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from 1995-2006. CSIR is the largest chain of publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in the world, with thirty-eight laboratories and about 22,000 employees. Dr. Mashelkar is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), London and was elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science, USA (2000), and Foreign Fellow of the US National Academy of Engineering (2003) and the US National Academy of Science (2005). Twenty five universities have honored him with honorary doctorates, including the Universities of London, Salford, Pretoria, Wisconsin, and Delhi. As Director of the National Chemical Laboratory (1989-1995), Mashelkar gave a new orientation to NCL’s research programs with strong emphasis on globally competitive technologies and international patenting. Since 1991, he has played a pivotal role in framing India’s national S & T policies as well as restructuring and reforming higher education in the post liberalization era

WILLIAM F. MASSY
Dr. Massy is president of The Jackson Hole Higher Education Group, Inc., an organization that advises leaders in higher education around the world in the areas of strategic planning and finance, resource allocation management, and academic quality improvement. Dr. Massy is also Professor Emeritus of Education and Business Administration at Stanford University. Massy is a specialist in the economic and leadership issues confronting today's colleges and universities. In the 1970s and 1980s he held senior administrative positions at Stanford University, where he pioneered the use of financial management and planning tools that have become standards in higher education. In 1987 he became a professor of higher education and founded the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research where he worked on education quality, resource allocation, finance, and mathematical modeling of universities - including the development of a full-scale computer simulation of university behavior released by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in the fall of 2000 under the title Virtual U. From 1996 to 2002 Dr. Massy directed the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement’s project on educational quality and productivity. From 1991 to 2003 he served on Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee. His book with David Hopkins, Planning Models for Colleges and Universities (1981) received the Operations Research Society of America’s Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, and in 1995 he received the Society for College and University Planning’s annual career award for outstanding contributions to college and university planning. More recent books include Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education (2003) and Remaking the American University: Market-smart and Mission-centered (2005).

BARRY MCGAW
Dr. Barry McGaw became Director in 2005 of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to that, he was Director of the Directorate for Education in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Professor McGaw was a key figure in the development of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which measures the reading, mathematics and scientific skills of 250,000 students from 32 countries. The research also explored the significance of school structure and approaches to ensuring school success. Prior to joining OECD, Dr. McGaw was Executive Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research, an independent, not-for-profit company based in Melbourne with an international research and development program. He had earlier been Professor of Education at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a graduate in chemistry from the University of Queensland in Australia, he subsequently studied psychology, completing his PhD in educational psychology and psychometrics at the University of Illinois in the USA. Dr. McGaw’s research interests have been in educational measurement, curriculum and assessment, and selection procedures for higher education. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Psychological Society and the Australian College of Educators. He has been President of the Australian Association for Research in Education, the Australian Psychological Society, the Australian College of Educators and the International Association for Educational Assessment. In 2003, he received an Australian Centenary Medal “for distinguished service through educational research and policy”.

K. M. VENKAT NARAYAN
K.M.Venkat Narayan, MD, MPH, MBA is Hubert Chair of Global Health at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and Research Director of the India, China, America (ICA) Institute. He was formerly Chief of the Diabetes Epidemiology & Statistics Branch, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Narayan is a product of three continents, and has a richly diverse background. He earned his medical degree from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India in 1980. He did post-graduate training in medicine and geriatrics in England, and in preventive medicine in Scotland & USA, and is certified in all three specialties. He was a Clinical Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Aberdeen, Scotland and was a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Narayan has focused his research efforts on the epidemiological, clinical research, and preventive aspects of diabetes, obesity, and vascular diseases, and has been involved with several leading national and international studies in the field. He has authored/coauthored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, including invited textbook chapters and several editorials. His editorial activities have included appointment as Associate Editor, Clinical Diabetes; Guest Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine; Guest Editor, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice; and he is currently Associate Editor of Primary Care Diabetes and is on the Board of Diabetes Technology and Sciences. He is also senior editor for a text-book on ‘Diabetes Public Health’ commissioned by Oxford University Press.

KATHERINE PERKINS
Dr. Katherine K. Perkins is the Associate Director of the Physics Education Technology (PhET) Project and an assistant professor attendant rank in Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The PhET project uses a research-based approach to develop highly effective online interactive simulations for learning physics and chemistry. The project has produced over 60 simulations which are freely available online. These simulations have been translated into numerous languages and are now being used all over the world. The PhET project received the 2006 MERLOT Editors Choice award for exemplary online material. In conjunction with developing simulations, the PhET project researches design, use, and effectiveness of simulations for improving student learning in science. Dr. Perkins also maintains active research efforts in understanding the impact of and impact on students beliefs about science, and in facilitating the adoption and adaptation of research-based teaching practices by science faculty and its impact on student learning and retention in science. These research efforts support her work as Associate Director for the University of Colorado s Science Education Initiative, a university-funded effort to achieve systemic improvement in science education at the University of Colorado. Prior to pursuing her work in education, Dr. Perkins received her A.B. in Physics and her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science from Harvard University, where she studied processes controlling atmospheric ozone concentrations. Her awards include a NSF Graduate Fellowship and a NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

JAGDISH N. SHETH
Dr. Sheth is the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing in the Goizueta Business School and the founder of the Center for Relationship Marketing (CRM) at Emory University. Prior to his present position, he was on the faculty of the University of Southern California, where he founded the Center for Telecommunications Management, the University of Illinois, Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Sheth is an expert on geopolitical realignment of nations, global competitiveness and strategic vision for global enterprises. Dr. Sheth has worked for numerous industries and companies in the U.S, Europe and Asia, both as an advisor and as a seminar leader. His clients include AT&T, BellSouth, Cox Communications, Delta, Ernst & Young, Ford, GE, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel, Pillsbury, Sprint, Square D, 3M, and Whirlpool. He has given more than 5,000 presentations in at least twenty countries. He is also on the Board of Directors of several public companies, including Norstan and Wipro Limited. Dr. Sheth is a prolific author. His books include the textbook, Customer Behavior (coauthored a textbook with Banwari Mittal), Clients for Life (co-authored with Andrew Sobel, 2000), Value Space (coauthored with Banwari Mittal, 2001), The Rule of Three (coauthored with Dr. Rajendra Sisodia, 2004), and Tectonic Shift (2002). Upcoming books include Firms of Endearment (coauthored with Rajendra Sisodia and David B. Wolfe, January 2007) and The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies (April 2007).

DENIS F. SIMON
Dr. Denis Fred Simon is the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce under the State University of New York in New York City. Prior to joining the Levin Institute, Dr. Simon served as Dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. In his capacity as Dean, Dr. Simon engineered a fundamental re-structuring of the overall MBA curriculum, moving it toward a problem-based form of pedagogy that emphasizes experiential learning.. Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Simon was President of Monitor Group (China). As a senior member of the Asia leadership team within Monitor Group (Asia), Dr. Simon helped drive overall business development and provided high-level management support and intellectual leadership for Monitor’s strategy engagements in China. From 1990-1995, Dr. Simon served as President of China Consulting Associates (Boston), which was one of only four foreign consulting firms approved by China’s State Council to operate as a domestically registered management consulting company in the PRC. Dr. Simon also has served as a private consultant to numerous Fortune Global 500 firms regarding their business entry and operations in China. Dr. Simon has written and lectured widely regarding innovation, high technology development, foreign investment and corporate strategy in the PacRim and is frequently quoted in the Western and Asian business press regarding commercial and technology trends in China, Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region. Among his key publications are: Technological Innovation in China [with Detlef Rehn] (1987), Science and Technology in Post-Mao China [edited with Merle Goldman] (1989), The Emerging Technological Trajectory of the Pacific Rim (1995), Corporate Strategies Towards the Pacific Rim (1996), and Techno-Security in an Age of Globalization (1997). He currently is working on a book-length manuscript dealing with the development of the computer industry in China—1949-2004.

DAN STEINBOCK
Dr. Dan Steinbock is ICT Research Director at the India, China and America Institute (ICA Institute). He serves as the faculty spokesman for FAME (Forum to Advance Mobile Experience), an initiative by the CMO Council, representing America’s 1,500 leading tech companies. He is also affiliate researcher at Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). Dr. Steinbock is the Director of the New York City office of the prestigious Academy of Finland. He serves as Visiting Professor at Helsinki School of Economics (International Business Department), where he conducts Prof. Michael E. Porter’s cluster course. As a senior Fulbright scholar, Dr. Steinbock has had affiliations with various departments of New York University, Columbia University and New School for Social Research. He is on the INSIDE 1to1 Editorial Research Board (Peppers and Rogers Group), INFO, and Communications Booknotes Quarterly (CBR). Dr. Steinbock’s research focuses on strategy and marketing. His studies extend from clusters and innovation to globalization and various ICT industries. He recently authored a research report, Finland’s Innovative Capacity, for the government of Finland and presented his findings before a session of the country’s Parliament. Dr. Steinbock’s books include The Mobile Revolution: The Making of Mobile Services Worldwide (Kogan Page, 2005), Competition for the Mobile Internet, with Professor Eli Noam, Wireless Horizon (2002), and The Nokia Revolution (2001). The Nokia book has been translated to Chinese and Vietnamese, and selected by the International Business Library as an “outstanding book for business people and top executives” in Israel. The Mobile Revolution is being translated to several languages (incl. Vietnamese, Russian, and Mandarin).

CARL WIEMAN
Dr. Carl Wieman is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Director of the Physics Education Technology (PhET) Project. He also directs major science education initiatives at the Universities of British Columbia and Colorado. Wieman has carried out research in experimental atomic physics and physics education. His work in both areas has been recognized with a number of awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 and being named the Carnegie Foundation US University Professor of the Year in 2004. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Chairs the NAS Board on Science Education.

MANSHENG ZHOU
Dr. Mansheng Zhou joined the National Center for Education Development Research (NCEDR), Ministry of Education, P.R China in 1985 and is now Deputy Director-General, and Adjunct Professor at Beijing Normal University. He is a member of the Leading Group for National Education and Science Planning, the Chinese Academic Committee of Education, and the Chinese Society of Vocational and Technical Education; in addition he is a permanent member of Chinese Comparative Education Society and the Chinese Society of Education. He graduated in 1982 from the Department of Education, Beijing Normal University, did advanced study and research as scholar in residence at the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO in Geneva, Switzerland in 1989 and 1990, and in 1991-1992 was a graduate fellow at McGill University in Canada. He has edited and authored numerous books, including Main Trends of the International Reforms of Higher Education (1990), A Review upon the Trends and Tendency of the Educational Reforms of the Developed Countries in the 80s (1994), The Trends and Tendencies of the Educational Reforms in Developed Countries (7 volumes,1988-2004), The Basic Characteristics and Law of the Worldwide Educational Development (2003), and Famous Documents for Current Education Reforms in the World (2004), and he serves as editor of the academic journal “Educational Research for Policy and Practice” (Published by Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association). He has published more than 150 articles in international and domestic journals related to education.